• Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, July 24, 2017 9:03 AM

    It's not that the DBA is responsible for all charges, but they might have to work with the person responsible for tracking to ensure that all database related charge have some value. Over time, especially with staff changes, this might not be as easy as one thinks.

    Agreed, it's a massive headache. Tags are good but they only go so far, and (when I last checked, anyway) they're not mandatory. We built some tagging logic into our ARM templates, but however good a job you do of that side of things, the hardest bit is actually getting the right department to stump up the £20K they accidentally spent by leaving an unused (test!) data warehouse running for weeks on end.